Hey, Google: failing to spellcheck Android 2.0 can have 'undesireable consequences'
By Chris Ziegler 
posted November 10th 2009 9:08PM
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I totaly aggree.
*site* ....... srry... i think im getting too...carried away...
Gud ettempt. A+ for affort!
I don't know if anyone has realized that this is completely intentional on Google's part, otherwise you all have a PhD in sarcasm.
This warning is if you want to turn off spell check on your phone, meaning it could result in you misspelling words, AS IT SHOWS IN THE WARNING.
Please, I hope engadget and all you readers noticed this. Please.
Um bro, this warning is for turning off the application "Finance."
Reading is good, yeah?
Are you taking the piss?!
Perhaps it has to do with his tight-assed, petulant reply to lotusaurus. I'm not a Google worshipper, but hey Chris Z., If you can't take it, don't dish it out.
So much drama. On both sides.
No drama! No, no, no drama!
Preach it just like Mary J
Well, now, listen carefully my dear. When you see your father, relay these words: Prepare for unforeseen consequences.
I thought we've replaced you smartasses with spellcheckers.
This is hilarious, but as long as at the end of the day this thing works and gives service, it's all gravy.
That is what she said.
Watch out Engadget, you'll become CNN!
Is today really such a slow day that you have to waste my time with this?
tldr: its not about the facts and news all the time. give the editors a break and have some fun.
I think Engadget is a great and different tech site.They actually have witty humor, rather than boring old 'look at these specs and look how nice/crappy this hardware looks' type stuff.
They still get the facts right. It's just my opinion, but I think this site is cool because they put some fun into reading a tech blog. To me, it's not always about the phones and new parts. Sometimes it's just about reading a blog where I can laugh about something I'm interested as well.
I like Engadget a lot.
Humens must fight for freedome!
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iDon't spell.
wow, this is like the UK apple and Microsoft fans Vs Nick Farrell!!
All you people are idots, learn to misspell correctly!
Wow, must be a slow news day? Or Apple cranking up the advertising on this site? LuLz either way.
Good to see Android 2.0 can run Applications and Applicatons.
Good grief, over a hundred comments about a misspelling - whatever did we do with our time before the Internet?
Procreate...and look where THAT got us.
common guys everyone make mistakes, "Droid does" too!
The Finance Applicaton is probably more amusing..I wonder how it differs to the normal Finance Application..
All applications are listed as "applicaton" when you try closing it. Go to home screen, menu button, Settings, applications, Running services, and pick a service to close. . If you close the email service, it will say "applicaton email".
Some commentators here are describing this as one minor flaw in a beautiful phone. Wrong. This is one minor flaw out of many. For example:
1. My first phone kept on crashing and rebooting, and when it does that in middle of a call or text it's really annoying. I returned it a day later. Judging by the droid forums I'm not alone.
2. The screen blanks out during a call. There is NO WAY to end the call.
3. You can't forward text massages. This is a basic feature of all phones.
4. You can't erase individual text messages. You can only erase the thread. Agan, this is Cellphone 101.
5. No normal sync with Outlook unless you have a corporate exchange server, and even that isn't working so well. That makes it a nonstarter for business users, unless you pay extra for an app to cover what is supposed to be a basic feature of a business phone.
I don't mind being a beta tester, but paying $200 after rebate for a beta product is a bit much. I will probably be returning the phone and getting a l8me moribund Windoze mobile phone, which at least does what a phone is supposed to do.
Yosef, I completely agree with you on all of your points.
But as a Storm user since January, I must say that we definitely had it worse...
Yosef,
1. Mine has never restarted.
2. The phone has a proximity sensor. Move your damn face away from the phone.
3. That's funny, because I just forwarded one. Click and hold on the message you want to forward.
4. See above.
5. I'll give you that one.
Upon further review there IS a way to forward individual messages- you have to longpress on a message and get the popup box. not obvious, not intuitive, and nothing but a paper-thin startup guide came with it. I have to research this on the web to find out how to use a completely new OS. Verizon, are we trying?
The Droid is human...
Now's the time for us to rise up and conquer, before they evolve and it's too late!
Not revolting could lead to undesireable consequences is your message there, but it's too late for me it seems, I appear to have been assimilated.
Pot, meet kettle.
Okay, let me just summarize my takeaways of the opinions in this comment thread (feel free to add/correct as necessary):
- In general, you don't want anecdotal posts or color commentary -- just straight news.
- We shouldn't make light of a company's mistake when we've made a similar mistake ourselves. (So, for example, reporting a defective battery would be in bounds.)
Is that a fair way of looking at it?
Personally, I like the general 'colorful' Engadget style whether it be anecdotal posts or news so I'd disagree with your first point.
As for your second point, by all means make known a company's mistake especially in this case, showcasing that even the multinational, multibillion dollar internet/advertising/technology company Google can't avoid spelling mistakes.
However, we do kinda expect you guys to accept similar criticism as well. Especially in this age where spelling mistakes really shouldn't exist on the internet anymore with browsers providing spell-check features and the availability of free word processors. Mistakes like "sight" in place of "site" can easily be missed but mistakes like "undesireable" and "undesirable" shouldn't.
But do disregard one commenter's post on this "useless" news. I enjoy this fun post as much as the "heavier" ones. In fact, this post is more useful to me than a post about the large hadron collider as I'm more likely to own an Android phone than have anything to do with the LHC. Besides, I just glance over news I'm not interested in all the time so I don't get why people have to complain about some news items.
Instead of having this question at the end of a comment section, why not have a separate post on the main page and ask how would you "fix" engadget? Then you could ask how people would like topics to be covered and what topics should be covered. If the conversation goes over well, ideally you would also be able to share the significance of clicks/traffic to the site and what does what.
No one stated that we don't like your opinions or the anecdotal posts. I, personally, would love to see some more.
And ofcourse you can report a company's mistakes, even if you made them yourself. But in a case like such a small mistake like this you shouldn't make a big point out of it. A twitter post with a twitpic image would be enough
and I don't think the attack at your spelling was serious, but then josh started smashing with his almighty banhammer and people started to get angry.
You can't blame people when they find it funny that you made mistakes on a post talking about mistakes.
Appart from that I really do enjoy reading your posts, whatever some people may say engadget is a great site, and the proof is that they keep commenting here.
Please don't take out what you call "color commentary", it's what differenciates sites, if there wasn't stuff like this all sites would be the same, as if written by robots not editors.
I guess, as Di3 said, people got angry after josh overreacted,it gave a bad impression.
So, please keep up the posts like you use to do, as i'm sure people enjoy reading them.
And sorry about the grammar mistakes as there probably are a load of them, i'm not a native english speaker :P
To me, it's not about "desireable". it's about "applicaton". That's inexcusable, and indicates how much this phone was rushed to market. How about an actual article on the egregious shortcomings experienced by us early adopters and discussed in the various droid forums (the phones constantly rebooting and crashing, no way to end a call, no way of doing hands-free without touching the device, no syncing with non-Exchange Outlook, awful battery life)?
ordered what verizion calls the new 3g phone after sepending 2 hrs in the store where no could explain the phones operation i left the storew addetioal 75 worth of assesories well the phones hype is jus t that hype what a piece of garrabe no manual with the phone can txt with out the help of someone can even change ring tones verizion should take this piece of gargabe and dump them into the ocean even tried calling a verizion tech representave who coilnt help me the simple applications theres nothing sinple about theis piece of crap The i phone has it over this phone by far
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